Posted on 03/17/2022 3:33:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Thursday voted to make abortions much cheaper for people on private health insurance plans, bringing California closer to becoming the fourth state in the country to ban insurance fees for the procedure.
California already requires private health insurance plans to cover abortion services. But insurers are allowed to charge people things like co-pays and deductibles, which adds an average of $543 to the cost of a medication abortion and $887 to the cost of a procedural abortion.
The Assembly approved a bill that would eliminate out-of-pocket costs for abortions on private health plans. While the bill would reduce the cost of abortions, it would also slightly increase monthly premiums for patients and their employers. But the savings from eliminating out-of-pocket costs would be greater than the increase in monthly premiums.
Three other states ban these fees: Illinois, Oregon and New York, according to a legislative analysis of the proposal. The bill now heads for a procedural vote in the state Senate before heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for his review.
“Protecting access to abortion is important now, more than ever, as our fundamental right to reproductive care is under attack in state houses across the country and in the chambers of our U.S. Supreme Court,” said Assemblymember Akilah Weber, who is also an OB-GYN.
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Going the wrong way, as usual.
Abortion is their sacrament. Might as well change the capital’s name to Abortimento.
Anything we can do to help the current self induced Black Genocide, sounds like a winning strategy
A $10 box of condoms would be cheaper.
EVEN cheaper to keep your legs together.
But that gas thing....no worries.
Agreed. It isn’t an exceptional procedure for them. It’s a must. So if woke, immoral degenerates want to evacuate their own offspring, why stop them? We have wasted a lot of time, effort, and energy on this. Let them receive their reward.
The final result will be doctors forced to give free abortions by the Cal govt. That would be a form of slavery. Forcing someone to provide services at a loss would add up to the same thing.
“But the savings from eliminating out-of-pocket costs would be greater than the increase in monthly premiums.”
Only for those having an abortion.
This is laundering taxpayer money to the abortion industry while subsidizing homicide.
AS long as it is retro-aactive for politicians I am all for it.
Wire coat hangers are cheap.
Come on, San Andreas, do your thing.
But the savings from eliminating out-of-pocket costs would be greater than the increase in monthly premiums.
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